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 Proportion of resident population in non conventional dwellings (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of resident population in non conventional dwellings (%) by Geographic localization (at the date of Census 2001); Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2001
First available period 2001
Last available period 2001
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (at the date of Census 2001)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
  • NON-CLASSIC FAMILY ACCOMMODATION:  Any place that, at the time of reference, is occupied by people and does not totally satisfy class accommodation conditions. Included in this category are shacks, mobile accommodation, rudimentary wooden dwellings, improvised accommodation in a construction not intended for habitation and other places not intended for habitation (caves, stairwells, bridges, etc).
  • DWELLING:  A separate and independent place which was built, rebuilt, enlarged or converted to be used as a private accommodation, and that is not totally occupied for other purposes during the reference period. Separate means hat the place is enclosured by classic or any other type of walls, covered, and allowing a person or group of persons to sleep, cook and shelter from intemperate weather, apart from other members of the collectivity. Independent means that its occupants do not have to pass or go through any other dwelling to get in or out the dwelling they live in.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
Formule (Resident population in non conventional dwellings/ Resident population)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 31/05/2007


information presented in 29/3/2024